Editor's picks from around the Web: 9/16-9/20

By Paul Wilson

ProducersWEB

This week's selection features advice on donating a life insurance policy to charity; PPACA and long-term care; why middle Americans get bad financial advice; the current state of the economy; Wall Street's worst computer glitches, and more.

"If all goes as planned, the Affordable Care Act is expected to usher in huge changes to the nation’s health-care system. Part of the reform should have — and still needs to — include a solution to deal with the looming long-term care crisis."

"If average Americans haven't been kicked around enough this past decade, now we have this: the middle class is serving as a pawn in Wall Street's high-stakes lobbying battle against stricter rules for brokers."

"Americans have some ideas, too. But many of the cost factors that people think are the most important pale in comparison to those that actually are, finds an analysis of six different polls that was published in a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine."

"Sure, unemployment remains high and we still haven’t found a solution to the “Too Big to Fail” problem, but the economy continues to grow at a subdued pace, and inflationary pressures are muted, whether in asset prices, wages or the cost of goods and services."